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While diversity advocates bemoaned 2023 ruling restricting affirmative action, broad tally affirms that nation’s institutions generally didn’t use that power

As part of ongoing efforts to reduce abuses and controversies in nation’s huge programme of international enrolment, Trudeau cuts back Covid-era 40-hour-a-week policy

Just as universities enter election-year battle over their worth, cries of antisemitism – sincere or otherwise – play into their historic partisan vulnerabilities

US, with the looming possibility of a second Trump presidency, deemed a more reliable education prospect than its anglophone rivals

Toronto’s respectful dialogue guru warns against ‘statement culture’ and says focus should be on scholarship and engagement

After top politicians visit Columbia University to demand harsh crackdown on student speech, police at multiple campuses move to shut down encampments

We must rethink higher education’s intellectual mission in terms that transcend Manichaean critiques of the neoliberal university, says Nicholas Dirks

Top congressional Republican comes to New York City to ally himself with conservatives attacking free speech on college campuses

Top US funding agency manages record increase in key programme for younger scientists, and sees gains in overall equity, while absorbing net cut in its annual budget

US university tests use of technology in training mental health advisers, but experts foresee – and fear – wider application

University’s president in tough situation, with lawmakers escalating tensions, students angered by quick use of police force, and encampments elsewhere drawing similar responses

After more than 100 arrests at demonstration supporting Palestinians, students revive mass occupation, putting their president under new fire from briefly supportive Republicans